Dara's arts thread! 5/15: Return of the arts?

[Silivren]

Poooonnnnies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AWWWW!!!! <3

[Daranara]

It's been a while since I've darkened your door, but I am back again to post my nonsense. There is nothing WoW this time, and precious little pokees, which I know seems to be the bulk of what y'all want to see, but them's the breaks. Bear with me this time, okee? There is a pony, though. Do y'all like ponies? I don't even remember if this is one of those forums that does. Eh.

Oh, and an animation!

Enough stalling, though.

First up, ponies!


Pony from the Right! by unkrikkett, on Flickr


Pony from the Left! by unkrikkett, on Flickr

This one here is a custom pony I made with a blank white base Hasbro sells. She came with white hair already rooted in, so I had to color it with strange arcane meansvery careful application of sharpie marker.

I kind of want to tear apart one of the newer set for a different sort of pony body, but they're so cute, amg D:


Blitzle and Saira by unkrikkett, on Flickr

Her and Blitzle, showing off at once her size, how awful she looks with a flash on her, and Blitzle.

Continuing along with the pony theme, we have myself as a pony!



lolquilting joke no one will get. It's okay, though!



A Pike pony! For Pike, formely of Aspect of the Hare. I just really liked her design :B

Okay, enough ponies.

I recently picked up Paint Tool SAI on a whim, and I've kinda been loving it. It is both similar and different to what I'm used to, but it's all worked out.

I just colored up this guy as a warm up:



Which for some reason led straight into a slyvari mesmer on a sawsbuck. I may just love my sawsbuck in my Black game, though.



Eventually I spiraled all the way down into this piece, which was long ago promised a friend. It went through several versions to reach what's here now, but that's okay. My paragon and his elementalist.



Last but not least, a link to my entry for the video contest that Arenanet was running for Guild Wars 2. Due to some timing miscalculations on my part, I ended up having three days to pull this together, but I don't think it's all bad, wonky voice acting aside.
I'll just link y'all to the animation because I don't want to annoy anyone with the imbed.

Okay so! Here's the deally-o. I'm kind of wanting to get back in the habit of drawing more, and I'm enlisting y'alls help, if you don't mind. What ought I draw? More hunter pets? Pokemons? Hunters as ponies? Give me a hand here, I'll give it a shot >:

[Lupis]

Wowa, SAI made those drawings look so Copic-y? Cool!
Grrr SAI why won't you work on Mac. >.<

I really like the pokemons myself, though all are cool. Maybe drawings with a hunter pet and a pokemon that matches it?

[Daranara]

Wowa, SAI made those drawings look so Copic-y? Cool!

Yus! There's a marker tool on there, and man if it isn't cheaper than my former flailing around with markers (Also an undo button is nice, I'm so tentative when it comes to real media...)

[Lupis]

I really want to try real Copics. They look so cool, but they're a little expensive.
I can't count how many times I've been drawing traditionally - or painting - and after messing up I've mentally pressed the Undo button. Never works, sigh.

[Daranara]

I was gifted a bunch of castoff prismacolors from a friend who was replenishing her collection, and they were nice, but yeah, good markers are so cost-prohibitive for me :/